{"id":13743,"date":"2020-07-16T22:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/watch-naval-historian-breaks-down-uss-bonhomme-richard-initial-fire-and-response\/13743\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T22:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:32:53","slug":"watch-naval-historian-breaks-down-uss-bonhomme-richard-initial-fire-and-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/watch-naval-historian-breaks-down-uss-bonhomme-richard-initial-fire-and-response\/13743\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Naval Historian Breaks Down USS Bonhomme Richard Initial Fire and Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the day, the fire grew in intensity, the crews were forced to withdraw due to explosions, and the conflagration spread the length of the entire deck.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the video below, Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/author\/salvatore\/\">Salvatore Mercogliano<\/a> examines the visual evidence of the first day and discusses his assessment of the fire, how it spread throughout the ship, and response by the ship\u2019s crew, shore and afloat fire apparatuses.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"f9fc02b0cf728234430a1cfb-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sal Mercogliano is a naval and maritime historian, a former merchant mariner with sea and ashore experience with the U.S. Navy\u2019s Military Sealift Command, and certified fire fighter with 20 years experience as Captain of his local volunteer fire department. He works as a tenured an associate professor of history at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As Sal notes, this is an early examination of the event as fires still smolder on board the ship and an investigation of the fire is underway. All the opinions expressed are his own based on the evidence as they are known at the time of the recording.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) Day One (July 12, 2020) Fire Analysis, Dr. Salvatore R. Mercogliano\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHtmvVDCJRc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of the day, the fire grew in intensity, the crews were forced to withdraw due to explosions, and the conflagration spread the length of the entire deck. In the video below, Dr. Salvatore Mercogliano examines the visual evidence of the first day and discusses his assessment of the fire, how it spread &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[8836,1337,1932,9022,3276,2312,1545,8837,2334,2860],"class_list":["post-13743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-bonhomme","tag-breaks","tag-fire","tag-historian","tag-initial","tag-naval","tag-response","tag-richard","tag-uss","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/13744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}